Joe Dante

  • Screenwriting

Keep It Simple, Keep It Relentless: Halloween‘s David Gordon Green and Danny McBride On Horror Screenwriting

Horror master John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween has become so indelibly etched into the cultural consciousness, so synonymous with the…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Festival Beat: Beyond Fest Founders On Building A Genre Festival From Goblin to Cronenberg

Among their many eccentric counterparts over the years, insect politicians, Haddonfield historians and bitchin’ scary German guys are three of…

6 years ago
  • Crossing the Line

Gentle Heart, Gruesome Imagination: Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943—August 26, 2017)

Tobe Hooper gave me my start in the business. We had the same agent, and he invited my writing partner/now-wife…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

Something About Mammoth: Come to Mammoth Lakes Film Festival for the Line-up, Stay for Springtime in NorCal

Somewhere in the mountains of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, off Route 395 near Yosemite National Park, is the Mammoth Lakes…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

Releasing Your Demons: We Asked Some Pros to Discuss the Nature of the Horror Distribution Beast

Should you release your horror film in theaters before it hits video-on-demand? Or on VOD before theaters? Or do it…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

The Scariest Scene of All Time: Director Joe Dante

For MovieMaker‘s 2016 Guide to Making Horror Movies special edition, we set out to identify what makes some of the…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • How They Did It

Tales of Halloween: 10 Short Stories Collide in Axelle Carolyn’s Orgy of Blood and Guts

It's scary to think that the new year is officially three weeks old. Even scarier? The thought of Halloween in…

9 years ago